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Star Trek: Alpha to Delta Quadrants & Everything In Between
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Almost completely correct. Canada is another exception.
https://www.cbr.com/how-where-to-watch-star-trek-discovery/
https://www.bellmedia.ca/sales/tv/space/star-trek/
https://media.netflix.com/en/press-...sion-series-in-188-countries-around-the-world
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/les-moonves-cbs-star-trek-discovery-netflix-1202712283/
https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/leslie-moonves-star-trek-netflix-nil-1201865908/ says
According to Parrot Analytics, it is the #1 most popular streaming show in the US, UK, and Switzerland.
Furthermore, its financial success is causing Paramount to consider up to four additional Trek projects.
Personally, I have not seen it yet. I am waiting for it to come to a service I use.
Yes, agreed, as I don't want to embarrass myself by asking what is this thing called Netflix?
Anyway, I don't have it, don't use it, and, to be honest, don't even know what it is. (Enlightenment welcome).
For now, I'll wait until I can view it on a platform that is accessible to me.
Netflix is a streaming service with a huge amount of original content, and quit a bit of popular TV and movies, priced at about $9 a month (I think, I'd have to check my bill.)
It is accessed in the States by a Roku Device, Apple TV both hooked to your TV (require wireless, or wired networked connection), possibly though your cable service, and possibly directly through your fairly new TV or DVD, BluRay player. All require a networked connection, but your TV may provide it through your cable, not sure, as I don't access it through my TV.
Reference this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ogramming-could-be-time-to-subscribe.1881725/
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Or through a computer web browser, phone app, or tablet app.
Yes, I overlooked these avenues as I don't ever use them, not that there is anything wrong with them.
[doublepost=1530135775][/doublepost]Regarding cost of equipment:
Modern TV? Roku and/or Apple TV pretty reasonably priced, and internet. For years I chose Roku over Apple TV, but now I have both because HBO's streaming service came to Apple TV for Game of Thrones, and I don't know if it is yet on Roku. The goal here was to easily turn a HBO subscription on and off without calling the Cable company.
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About the cheapest method to watch Netflix onto your TV if you don't have a smart TV with Netflix app built into it is via a device like a https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_2015?hl=en-US ($35 USD), Amazon Fire TV stick, or Roku Streaming Stick. TV needs to have HDMI in though.
For Chromecast, you can use your iOS device or Android device or computer on the same network to control it, since it comes with no remote. I have no experience w/the latter two devices.
At home, I have a Chromecast, an Apple TV 4K and an old Roku 3 and have used them all w/Netflix to watch it on my TV. I've also used my PS3, which is a painful experience, at best. I think I tried my Xbox 360, as well.
For Chromecast, you can use your iOS device or Android device or computer on the same network to control it, since it comes with no remote. I have no experience w/the latter two devices.
At home, I have a Chromecast, an Apple TV 4K and an old Roku 3 and have used them all w/Netflix to watch it on my TV. I've also used my PS3, which is a painful experience, at best. I think I tried my Xbox 360, as well.
Thanks for filling in some of the holes I left in my Netflix description.
Harlan Ellison, the writer of "City on the Edge of Forever," dies at age 84.
https://deadline.com/2018/06/harlan-ellison-dies-sci-fi-writer-was-84-1202419133/
Fans of that episode who haven't read about its contentious background might find it fascinating. In the years since, Ellison wrote a book about it, published its original screenplay, and had a hand in a well-received comic adaptation of the original screenplay. All worth a gander.
https://deadline.com/2018/06/harlan-ellison-dies-sci-fi-writer-was-84-1202419133/
Fans of that episode who haven't read about its contentious background might find it fascinating. In the years since, Ellison wrote a book about it, published its original screenplay, and had a hand in a well-received comic adaptation of the original screenplay. All worth a gander.
Fantastic episode; if memory serves, it won a number of awards of the sort that scoff and/or fantasy series are not normally considered for - and was the first fantasy/scifi show to do so.
I just saw an interview conducted with Patrick Stewart where he mentioned that his favourite episode of STNG was The Inner Light.
Nooo, not that flute solo. <starts tearing up>
Rumor has it that Sir Patrick Stewart will be making an appearance in Discovery.
I hope it's not a predictable and overused time travel plot such as old future Captain Picard going back in time to set everything straight.
I hope it's not a predictable and overused time travel plot such as old future Captain Picard going back in time to set everything straight.
That is my favorite episode from the original series.
For those on Twitter, do you follow any of these accounts?
@RikerGoogling
@PicardTips
@swear_trek
@WorfEmail
@LocutusTips
@AnnoyedOBrien
@RikerGoogling
@PicardTips
@swear_trek
@WorfEmail
@LocutusTips
@AnnoyedOBrien
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I'm not really on Twitter (my tweets are mainly to enter drawings/sweepstakes) but I do follow @RikerGoogling. That guy is pretty funny. And yes, I know he runs at least two of the three others you mentioned.
What was pretty funny is that awhile ago, https://twitter.com/jonathansfrakes actually replied to one of the RikerGoogling tweets.
Yeah, one guy runs all of those accounts except for @swear_trek. They're all pretty good and I saw when Frakes replied to @RikerGoogling too. Good stuff.
I always get a kick out of these accounts tweets.
Only PicardTips: (Which I tripped over on Twitter). Must investigate the others, and thank you for drawing my attention to them.
@PicardTips and @RikerGoogling are the most active ones and once in a while he'll post something to @WorfEmail. But I enjoy them all.
I'm finally catching up on the 2nd batch of Discovery episodes, and must say it's a pretty damn good sci-fi TV show. I'm kinda hesitant to call it Star Trek because of the inconsistencies compared to its predecessors; instead I like to think of it as its own unique thing, and that helps me to appreciate it more.
So far I've mostly liked or really liked nearly every episode - a couple were a bit slow and boring, but most were at least decent, and just about any episode where Lorca in particular did something weird and/or crazy was a lot of fun to watch, IMO. Such a great character, and such a great actor too. <3 Lorca! One of my top captains in his own way, along with Sisko, Janeway, Picard and Archer. Oh, that's nearly all of them! Okay then, Kirk is kinda cool too, in a way.
So far I've mostly liked or really liked nearly every episode - a couple were a bit slow and boring, but most were at least decent, and just about any episode where Lorca in particular did something weird and/or crazy was a lot of fun to watch, IMO.
Such a great character, and such a great actor too. <3 Lorca! One of my top captains in his own way, along with Sisko, Janeway, Picard and Archer. Oh, that's nearly all of them! Okay then, Kirk is kinda cool too, in a way.
Yes, @swear_trek
Can't really post here since they're pretty littered with the F-bomb, but it's hysterical.
Clip of the ST Voyager episode 5x24 aboard the Federation Time Ship Relativity
I just found another Twitter account that Joe Sondow does. All of the above, except @swear_trek, and now he also has @LocutusTips.